Dear members,

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The reason why this time it is me who signs this letter intended to welcome you at the beginning of a new season and to present the very interesting activities that we have scheduled for the coming months is that I want to avail myself of this opportunity to say farewell to all of you.

 

Much to my regret, a good part of these activities I will not be able to enjoy with you since the time has come for me to move on, and after just over 4 years living in Abu Dhabi I have to say goodbye to the UAE. Of course, I will miss a city and a country where I have enjoyed so much, but most of all I will miss the people with whom I have lived and enjoyed so many beautiful things and who will always be in my heart. Time passes quickly, but we are left with our shared memories, our projects, and the finished works.

 

I am enormously proud to have been part from its very beginning of this marvelous adventure called The Art Circle. When in early 2018, only a few months after I had landed in Abu Dhabi, Barbara asked me to join this project I could not imagine how big this would become. Thanks to the Circle I met Hoda, Lina, Sylvie, Nada, Asma... and thanks to them I discovered the wealth of this cosmopolitan country, so special and different. I want to thank of all you for all that I have received.

 

As an artist, The Art Circle has allowed me to get to know other artists living in the UAE and to get acquainted with their work from very close up by visiting not only their exhibitions but also their ateliers. I have even had the privilege of sharing artistic projects with some of these artists, such as the exhibition The Rhythm of Patterns (May 2021), in which I collaborated with local artist Najat Maki and other international artists.

 

The Art Circle has also allowed me, through the webinars we have developed during these months of pandemic, to open my knowledge to the artistic richness of this region of the world, so unknown to many of us.

 

There is, no doubt, a feeling of sadness at this time of leaving but this feeling is overwhelmed by the happiness that living in this country and meeting its wonderful people have brought me and also by the satisfaction with all the work I have done here and the fact that most of it will remain here, in private collections or in Foundations like ADMAF or Maraya Permamnet Collection.

 

I'm leaving but I'm still with you. I intend to remain an active member of The Art Circle and I'll continue from Spain collaborating, enjoying and learning with all of you. Art knows no borders.  As Gustav Klimt put it, "Art is a line around your thoughts”, and The Art Circle will remain in my thoughts.

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Thank you very much to all of you.

Hasta la vista